Kevin Benedict Ponders the Future

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of March 18, 2012

Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia. Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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A recent global IT survey by the Ponemon Institute and Websense revealed that 61 percent of Australian IT professionals felt the use of mobile devices in the workplace is an important part of achieving business objectives. Read Original Content

BlackBerry leads as the most popular enterprise platform in India, according to a recent survey of CIOs. Sixty-one percent of those responding preferred the BlackBerry as an enterprise mobility solution, with Android far behind with 18 percent. Read Original Content

CTI Group and Australia’s KNet Technology have announced a partnership and a move into the Asia Pacific region. Read Original Content

A study from research firm TechNavio shows that mobile may be the solution for voice over Internet protocol technology for businesses in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The research predicts that the market will reach $5.3 billion in two years. Read Original Content

TriQuint Semiconductor has opened a headquarters facility in Singapore. "With Asia's appetite for new technologies, particularly in mobile devices, and government support of the latest communications infrastructure, we believe Asia will continue to offer great opportunities for business growth.” Read Original Content

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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FORCE Therapeutics has released its next generation app, FORCE Mobile, which offers professional exercise solutions for musculo-skeletal injuries, direct to the consumer. The app intelligently recommends exercises based on sport, area and type of dysfunction. Read Original Content

A new healthcare mobility survey from iHealthBeat found that 85 percent of respondents said their organization has a BYOD policy, but the organizations vary in the amount of data they allowed personal mobile devices to access. Read Original Content

Patient-centric medical homes are touted to fix the healthcare cost crisis, but the deep pockets and extensive IT resources they require aren't available to every healthcare provider. Read Original Content

Webalo technology eliminates the need for traditional mobile application development tools and custom programming to provide in hours, instead of weeks or months, mobile access to the specific enterprise data and functions that smartphone and tablet users rely on to do their jobs. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Webalo, www.webalo.com.

Low-cost, self-service platforms for SMS alerts will soon replace manual phone calls and handwritten notes for appointment reminders and prescription refill notifications, ensuring that billable services and products are used and patients receive their scheduled care. This is just one of the reasons mHealth will go mainstream in 2012. Read Original Content

According to a report by the Boston Consulting Group and Telenor Group, a Norway-based mobile communications provider, mobile health projects could reduce maternal and perinatal mortality rates by about 30 percent; and reduce medical data collection-related costs by about 24 percent. Read Original Content

The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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Samsung’s market share in the Chinese market is three times larger than Apple’s and still growing, Bloomberg reported. Read Original Content

By 2016, iGR expects approximately 96 percent of U.S. handset sales to be comprised entirely of smartphone sales. Read Original Content

4G handsets grabbed 35 percent of the smartphone market in the fourth quarter, up from just 6 percent a year earlier, NPD said. Read Original Content

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Beginning March 1, Facebook began allowing brands that people “like” to send messages and ads to those users’ mobile news feeds. Facebook could generate more than $1.2 billion from mobile ads in the program’s first year, estimates Mobile Squared. Read Original Content

By 2016, at least 50 percent of enterprise email users will rely primarily on a browser, tablet or mobile client instead of a desktop client, according to Gartner. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Anu Agarwal

I had the privilege of attending a session on SAP's new mobile applications taught by SAP's Anu Agarwal a couple of weeks ago. After the session Anu granted me an interview on a range of topics related to enterprise mobility and mobile application architecture. Anu manages the development of SAP's new mobile EAM (enterprise asset management) and Field Services applications. These applications connect to SAP's CRM. I hope you find it useful.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer

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Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Coca Cola Consolidated and Enterprise Mobility

I just listened to an overview of a recent mobility project that Coca Cola Consolidated did using the system integrator Energy4U and the MEAP vendor Syclo. The solution integrated with SAP. It was basically a mobile shipping, inventory and warehouse application.

A few interesting points, 1)Coca Cola Consolidated are mobility veterans in some parts of their organization with over 25 years of mobility experience, but they outsourced this project to a mobility vendor and a system integrator, and 2) the project only took 8 weeks.

Coca Cola Consolidated selected Energy4U and Syclo as their mobility implementation team because mobility was not their core focus. They wanted to outsource this effort to an experienced team with SAP expertise.

The success of the project was credited to productive on site visits where processes and requirements were accurately documented, trained experts and a good MEAP vendor. It also helped that there was a very experienced Energy4U mobility team that were skilled veterans of developing on Syclo's Smart Mobile Suite.

Venky Govind of Coca Cola Consolidating said they wanted a mobility vendor that would be responsible for supporting all of the current and future mobile operating systems and devices, and keeping the MEAP (mobile enterprise application platform) updated. They did not want that responsibility in-house.

This solution was replacing a manual paper driven process. The mobile app replaced the paper forms and simplified the entire process while automating the data collection and integrating it directly with SAP.

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